Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.

When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.